From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:00:25 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twlhzcku.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1602091158360.17825@knanqh.ubzr>
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> writes:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:28:35PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> > The config option to enable it all.
>>
>> Just enable it by default..
>
> :-)
>
> Viro took the opposite view with this patch:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/3/1068
>
> where he's ensuring that no exports are dropped, even if obviously
> they're not used (otherwise some complaints would have come about). So
> I'm not sure if having this turned on by default is a good thing.
>
> But I don't mind being convinced otherwise.
People do build out-of-tree modules. Dropping support for that would
simplify our lives, but seems fairly controversial :)
Cheers,
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-09 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 20:28 [PATCH 0/6] Trim unused exported symbols Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/6] kbuild: record needed exported symbols for modules Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 22:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-02-08 22:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-09 4:15 ` Al Viro
2016-02-09 4:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 20:28 ` [PATCH 2/6] allow for per-symbol configurable EXPORT_SYMBOL() Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 22:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-02-08 20:28 ` [PATCH 3/6] fixdep: minor cleanup Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 20:28 ` [PATCH 4/6] fixdep: add fine grained build dependencies for exported symbols Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 20:28 ` [PATCH 5/6] create/adjust generated/expsyms.h Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 22:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-02-08 22:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-08 20:28 ` [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-09 2:34 ` Rusty Russell
2016-02-09 4:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-09 11:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-02-09 13:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09 13:37 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-02-09 17:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-09 23:30 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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